Some Good Books
ON WRITING
Aristotle, Poetics
W. H. Auden, The Dyer’s Hand
Joseph Campbell, The Masks of the Gods: Creative Mythology
Joseph Conrad, Introduction to The Nigger of the “Narcisssus”
Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel
Harvey Gross, ed., The Structure of Verse
Robert Grudin, Time and the Art of Living
Donald Hall, Life Work
Henry James, The Lesson of the Master
Tom Jenks, A Poetics of Fiction: Six Chapters on
James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Carl Jung, The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature
Michael Kreyling, Author and Agent
Marie Louise von Franz, Evil and Shadow in Fairytales
Joyce Carol Oates, Woman Writer
Flannery O’Connor, The Habit of Being
Cynthia Ozick, Art & Ardor (The Lesson of the Master)
George Plimpton, ed, Writers at Work: The Paris Review
V. S. Pritchett, The Gentle Barbarian: Turgenev; Chekhov
Ranier Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Philip Roth, The Ghost Writer
W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer’s Notebook
Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?; Tolstoy’s Diaries
Mark Twain, The Autobiography of Mark Twain
Eudora Welty, One Writer’s Beginnings; The Eye of the Story
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
